fogg1703 wrote:Thanks for posting the links of the great MaineRailFanner videos.
A couple questions arise:
1. Does NBM assign a switcher at Brownville Jct that builds trains for MNR and NBSR traffic?
2. Are NBSR and MNR crews pre blocking trains prior to interchange at Brownville Jct due to congestion?
3. Does CMQ assign a switcher to Brownville Jct or is it the road power that switches Brownville Jct?
1. Nope. Road crews switch Brownville.
2. Yep. I'll relay what I've been told. MNR blocks the trains for south, east and west. They make their drops for west and south in the Brownville yard, make pickups in Brownville Junction and run back to the cutoff to pick up the east section of their train from Oakfield. Westbounds out of Saint John do the same thing, in reverse.
3. I believe they normally do not, but may call an extra crew as needed.